Abstract

This is the final report for the DEGRADEPLANT project, which received funding under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The project proposed to investigate the role of insertions and deletions (indels) in the acquisition of new enzyme functions. The report covers the achievements of the project along the lines of its two major themes. It notes that they developed a new approach to create libraries of random indel mutants from a gene of interest based on in vitro transposition.